LAFAYETTE — A father's protection of his teenage daughter might have cross into the a criminal act, according to Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Office reports.

Forty-four-year-old Antonio Rosales-Gonzales notice his daughter wasn't inside the family home late Saturday, so he went looking for her.

Just before midnight Saturday, he found her sitting in a parked car at the dead end of the Plains Drive. She was talking with a 16-year-old boy inside the car, according to sheriff's deputies. That's when Rosales-Gonzales went off, according to deputies' reports filed Sunday morning, nearly 11 hours after the incident.

Rosales-Gonzales punched the boy, backhanded his daughter and pulled a pistol, according to reports at the sheriff's office.